REVIEW: RIVER CITY EXTENSION – DELIVERANCE (2015)
River City Extension knows how to win an unfamiliar crowd over. I’ve seen it. It was in August 2012. New Jersey’s River City Extension was touring as openers for enchanting Por
CONCERT REVIEW: GGOOLLDD AT TONIC TAVERN (MILWAUKEE, WI)
GGOOLLDD (Milwaukee, WI) and Eagle Trace (Milwaukee, WI)March 4th, 2015Tonic Tavern in Milwaukee, WI If someone asked me who the hottest band in Milwaukee was r
Dan’s Top Albums of 2014
2014 felt like the fastest year of my life; it began with an eager attitude to accelerate and outlast the worst winter I could remember in my 29 years of living in the Midwest. And
REVIEW: FIELD GUIDES – BOO, FOREVER (2014)
On their debut album, Boo, Forever, Brooklyn-based Field Guides deliver a collection of songs that merge literary inspirations with charming pop likeability. The alb
REVIEW: INTERPOL – EL PINTOR (2014)
“All the Rage Back Home” the lead single off of Interpol’s fifth album, El Pintor, recalls an excitement, a fevered energy that hasn’t been notably prominent in t
REVIEW: SHARON VAN ETTEN – ARE WE THERE (2014)
The sad-eyed, acoustic guitar-playing singer-songwriter with painstaking songs about love, hurt, the expectations and the disappointments: it’s nothing new to music, it’s been
REVIEW: THE JEZABELS – THE BRINK (2014)
The Jezabels’ second full-length release, The Brink, is an invigorating shake-up: a welcoming jolt to whatever tiring routine, rut, feeling or season that has found its way
REVIEW: BRENDAN BENSON – YOU WERE RIGHT (2013)
Brendan Benson is best known to some as the other guy; the guy who sings and plays guitar alongside Jack Whitein the two friends’ Detroit-born supergroup, The Raco